Could curiosity improve artificial intelligence?
Does this addition of curosity changes clarifai into a true AI?


As per my answer to this question, we don't know what the ingredients for a 'true AI' are. Via the Turing Test and its variants, the best we can do is "know one when we see one".

Curiosity certainly appears necessary for intelligence, though it doesn't seem sufficient - a lemming-like creature curious to see what's at the bottom of a steep cliff might not survive long enough to learn caution, even if it had the learning mechanisms to do so.

Here is some work by Schmidhuber on Artificial Curiousity. 

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer has also done quite a lot of work on this and Active Learning/Intrinsic motivation.